Psalm 19:3
New International Version
They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them.

New Living Translation
They speak without a sound or word; their voice is never heard.

English Standard Version
There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard.

Berean Standard Bible
Without speech or language, without a sound to be heard,

King James Bible
There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

New King James Version
There is no speech nor language Where their voice is not heard.

New American Standard Bible
There is no speech, nor are there words; Their voice is not heard.

NASB 1995
There is no speech, nor are there words; Their voice is not heard.

NASB 1977
There is no speech, nor are there words; Their voice is not heard.

Legacy Standard Bible
There is no speech, nor are there words; Their voice is not heard.

Amplified Bible
There is no speech, nor are there [spoken] words [from the stars]; Their voice is not heard.

Christian Standard Bible
There is no speech; there are no words; their voice is not heard.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There is no speech; there are no words; their voice is not heard.

American Standard Version
There is no speech nor language; Their voice is not heard.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
There is no speech nor words whose voice will not be heard.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
There are no speeches or words, in which their voices are not heard.

Contemporary English Version
They don't speak a word, and there is never the sound of a voice.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There are no speeches nor languages, where their voices are not heard.

English Revised Version
There is no speech nor language; their voice cannot be heard.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
without talking, without words, without their voices being heard.

Good News Translation
No speech or words are used, no sound is heard;

International Standard Version
There is no speech nor are there words— their voice is not heard—

JPS Tanakh 1917
There is no speech, there are no words, Neither is their voice heard.

Literal Standard Version
There is no speech, and there are no words. Their voice has not been heard.

Majority Standard Bible
Without speech or language, without a sound to be heard,

New American Bible
There is no speech, no words; their voice is not heard;

NET Bible
There is no actual speech or word, nor is its voice literally heard.

New Revised Standard Version
There is no speech, nor are there words; their voice is not heard;

New Heart English Bible
There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

Webster's Bible Translation
There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

World English Bible
There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.

Young's Literal Translation
There is no speech, and there are no words. Their voice hath not been heard.

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Context
The Heavens Declare the Glory of God
2Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. 3Without speech or language, without a sound to be heard, 4their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.…

Cross References
Psalm 19:2
Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.

Psalm 19:4
their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.


Treasury of Scripture

There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

There.

Deuteronomy 4:19
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

where.

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(3) There is no speech.--The literal rendering is Not speech, not words, their voice is not heard. Explaining this is (1) the English version (Bible and Prayer Book) and (if intelligible at all) the LXX. and Vulg.: "There is no speech nor language without their (the heavens') speech being heard (i.e., understood)." But this gives an inadmissible sense to davar, which does not mean language, but a spoken word. Besides, it was not a likely thought for the psalmist, that the Divine tradition of the heavens, while it travels over the whole earth, would be everywhere intelligible. (2) "It is not speech, it is not words whose voice is inaudible," i.e., unintelligible, but, on the contrary, it is a manifestation to all the world. But the parallelism is against this. The line "their voice is not heard" is but the rhythmic echo of there is no speech nor word." (3) We therefore keep close to the literal rendering, There is no speech, there are no (uttered) words, their voice is inaudible; understanding the poet to say, that the manifestation of the Creator's glory, which he has just imagined the heavens proclaiming, and of which each succeeding day hands on the tale, is not made in audible words. The communication of the sky is eloquent, but mute; its voice is for the heart and emotion, not the ear. So Addison--

"What though in solemn silence all

Move round this dark terrestrial ball,

What though no real voice or sound

Amidst their radiant orbs be found?

In reason's ear they all rejoice

And utter forth a glorious voice,

For ever singing as they shine

The hand that made us is Divine."

Verse 3. - There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard; rather, there is no speech, there are no words; their voles is not heard; i.e. the speech which they utter is not common speech - it is without sound, without language; no articulate voice is to be heard. (So Ewald, Hup-feld, Perowne, Kay, Hengstenberg, Alexander, and our Revisers.)

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Without
אֵֽין־ (’ên-)
Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

speech
אֹ֭מֶר (’ō·mer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 562: Promise, speech, thing, word

or
וְאֵ֣ין (wə·’ên)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

language,
דְּבָרִ֑ים (də·ḇā·rîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

without a sound
קוֹלָֽם׃ (qō·w·lām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

to be heard,
נִשְׁמָ֥ע (niš·mā‘)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently


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